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Failure to Identify Somatic Mutations in Monozygotic Twins Discordant for Schizophrenia by Whole Exome Sequencing.
Chinese medical journal - 20 Mar 2016
Lyu Nan, Guan Li-Li, Ma Hong, Wang Xi-Jin, Wu Bao-Ming, Shang Fan-Hong, Wang Dan, Wen Hong, Yu Xin
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BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a severe, debilitating, and complex psychiatric disorder with multiple causative factors. An increasing number of studies have determined that rare variations play an important role in its etiology. A somatic mutation is a rare form of genetic variation that occurs at an early stage of embryonic development and is thought to contribute substantially to the development of SCZ....
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